Frenchiness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being or seeming characteristically French. uncountable

    "Pixie waved her hands with the Frenchiness of gesture which was the outcome of an education abroad, and which made an amusing contrast with an Irish accent, unusually pronounced."

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"Pixie waved her hands with the Frenchiness of gesture which was the outcome of an education abroad, and which made an amusing contrast with an Irish accent, unusually pronounced."

Etymology

From Frenchy + -ness.

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